Drunk with power

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"The ancient Irish had a saying: 'You don't give a man a weapon until you've taught him how to dance.' In other words, a different kind of learning is required before someone can be truly trusted with social power and potent things like weapons. If a man does not know the wounds of his own soul, he can deny not just his own pain, but also be unmoved by the suffering of other people. More than that, he will tend to put his wound onto others. He may only be able to see the wound that secretly troubles him when he forcefully projects it unto someone else, in forms of abuse or violence.

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So in the old culture-making idea, in order to properly bear arms a person must first become disarmed, as in becoming vulnerable and connected to something meaningful and supportive of life. The idea of forging the temperament of young men took precedence over the idea of simply giving them weapons at a certain age. The tempering of the souls involved discovering what kind of anger each might carry and learning about the inner line where anger turned into blind rage. Becoming tempered also meant immersing in the sorrow of one's life and thereby being in touch with the grief of the world."

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In more mundane terms, it is easier to look within to understand everybody else. Pain is a concept that all humans feel, it is in our human nature to feel pain, to hurt and to be able to in our action and ways hurt others. This mechanism was put in place in order to guide our way of living; such that our actions needed to benefit us without hurting whoever was close to us. Even more so with the advent of todays societal hierarchy - because pertaining to leadership, it is imperative that the pain of the many and or the few are addressed as if they were those of the leader. You need to know how to feel pain in order to successfully lead. The caviar however is leadership is not solely based on emotions and the ability to feel the pain of the people, but it is the main prerequisite of the position of the soul that will guide and make a leader wholesome.

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Therefore then in order to rid ourselves of these power drunk elite and prospect towards a better leadership pack, we need to ask ourselves the basic question - are we ready to rid ourselves of our own numbness to pain, are ready to endure the pain of the masses and put the will of the people above ours?

Only this desire will birth a new generation of leaders capable of nation building at the highest scale - guaranteeing that everyone is engaged and involved in decision making for a more prosperous nation.

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